Re: GAC Alternative

[William A. R. Jr. <wr...@ro...>]

Todd Hicks wrote:
> Can mod_aspnet be made to work with Apache.Web.dll somewhere other than in
> the GAC (e.g. in Apache's /bin instead)? If I have to make a custom build
> that's fine, I'm just looking for a little push in the right direction. 

Just recalled "why GAC?" in the installer.  This information may no longer
be applicable though.  There were issues with loading it locally due to
some combination of the trust schema and signature.  Also, gacutil.exe was
advertised as *not available* (unsupported) in a runtime install.

If these situations aren't an issue, I don't have a particular issue with
changing this.  Note that the version is strongly bound, so it shouldn't
usually be a problem.  Can you provide a little more detail why it cannot
land in the GAC?

One shortcoming is in the compilation cache, I'm not sure how not
registering it in the GAC would affect things.  We should watch that since
it might have an issue on startup times.